OR P I N E- A P P L E. 117 



imagine a plant can Jive and be in good 

 health without frefh air. Although pines 

 do not fb foon difcover the want of it as 

 many other plants that are more fucculent 

 or foft-leaved, yet they equally fuffer for 

 want pf it. 



IF the plants have had no misfortune 

 and are thriving, they will require to be 

 fhifted into three-halfpenny pots in the 

 month of May, when they will be flrong 

 plants, and be in no danger of what the 

 gardeners call running (fruiting). 



I CANNOT fay positively that this mift- 

 ing will entirely prevent it, as perhaps a 

 few may fruit ; but I can fay with truth, 

 J:hat there will not be twenty in five hun- 

 dred, which is next to nothing. Notvvith- 

 ftanding this, thofe that have had a check 

 by cold, or being too much heated, will be 

 liable to fruit, 



IT fometimes happens that old plants 



will not mew fruit at the proper time, 



H 3 though 



